Life can be put down to a science project and finding where to place your next step can be handled with an understanding of the facts. Margo Price paid attention in class, stick to the facts. In this case, as described in the song title, she “Can’t Stand Still”. On one side, you have those voices, we have all heard them, the ones claiming to know how to act, what to say, etc. What Margo hears from the outside is the usual, “women ain’t supposed to ramble, women ain’t supposed to drink”, Papa and Mama saying get married, settle down. Luckily, the inner voice is louder, the one asking “why would I want to stay home all night washing dishes in the kitchen sink?”. The stage is set, now lay on the variables, like when she reads the post-it note message to all little sisters, letting them know “not to do the way I do, because the pills won’t help to take away the pain the way the whiskey and the cocaine do”. Another voice, one with experience. Carefully taking all she knows, Margo makes a plan, get out of town, get to the city, make some cash and get her picture in a magazine as the final scene shows that she will “get me a big white stallion, I’m gonna find me a traveling man, gonna buy him some boots and a three piece suit and then 
he’ll take me to the promised land”. The characters that pass through the songs on Buffalo Clover’s “Low Down Time”, have the same determination, and personality, that show confidence in their decisions, right or wrong. The suggestions are not hidden from the song titles, “Don’t Lie to Yourself”, “Seek Me Out”, “Cure Me” and worldviews ride the same bus of full disclosure “Nobody Cares”.
Buffalo Clover early harvest grew from the seeds planted by Margo Price and husband/co-writer, Jeremy
Ivey, after meeting in Nashville in 2008. The power of three forged the group core when guitar/banjo player Matt Gardner came into the band photos in 2009. On their Palaver Records full length debut, ‘Low Down Time’, Buffalo Clover power push songs with flashes of soul (“Good Man”, “Oh Well”), coast on a low slung groove (“Oklahoma”) and use the white lines rushing under the touring van to count time for a road song (“Saint Cathleen”). Buffalo Clover use styles and instrumentation as needed on their songs; Farfisa organ bounce and delicate piano meditations share shelf space. The secret weapon in Buffalo Clover are the simple riffs that crawl quickly into your brain and lodge themselves in the roughly three minute and change time the songs take make their points. Saying these riffs are basic is like saying short sentence folk wisdom does not knock the socks off a $100 an hour psych session. The guitar patterns are, in most cases, held together with a few hearty notes but, man, do they get under your skin.
Buffalo Clover is a band that views music as a whole and do not need labels, terms or vacated pigeon holes for their sound. Using the band definition from their website, Buffalo Clover combine “gypsy punk to Motown boxcar blues, Vaudevillian acid rock to train wreck folk”….yeah, say that three times fast. Buffalo Clover tour the United States extensively and, in the summer of 2011, over to the UK. To find out more about the spreading of Bufflao Clover, hike on into their website. Danny McCloskey
